Bridge to Excellence: Building Capacity for Sustainable Performance

Since 2008, the Bridge to Excellence model has been leveraged to help thousands of leaders discuss how to achieve and repeat great organizational results, know precisely what is creating the results, develop confidence in the system capacity to prevent undesirable outcomes and recover when they do occur, and to create an organizational culture dedicated to this pursuit, with a shared mindset that regardless of how well the organization is performing, continuous improvement is always possible. Author Shawn M. Galloway is passionate about helping leaders achieve excellence in their organizational safety performance and culture. But the more he spoke with leaders about the Bridge and helped them implement it for their organizations, the clearer it became that this was not just a pathway to pursuing excellence in occupational safety. Leaders at all levels realize that the Bridge concept can be applied to production, human resources, and sales, to departments, units, and plants, to teams a